Hybrid Fruitfly Optimization for EHR Applications in cloud environments for load balancing optimization -- Distributed Machine Learning - An Intuitive Approach -- Prediction of Wall Street Through AI Approach -- A Hybrid Intelligent Approach for Early Identification of Different Diseases in Plants -- Analyzing Comments on social media with XG Boost Mechanism -- Distributed Edge Learning in Emerging Virtual Reality Systems -- A review on Deep Learning Based Object Recognition Algorithms -- A Study on Interaction of Human-Machine in Banking Services during Covid-19 -- A Study on Review of Application of Blockchain Technology in Banking Industry.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICMISC 2021), organized by Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India during 22 - 24 September 2021. The topics covered in the book include the artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic, cloud computing, evolutionary algorithms and computation, machine learning, metaheuristics and swarm intelligence, neuro-fuzzy system, soft computing and decision support systems, soft computing applications in actuarial science, soft computing for database deadlock resolution, soft computing methods in engineering, and support vector machine.